Either by the lightnings, or thunderbolts, or other things which accompanied the cracks of thunder; or by the Israelites, who perceiving them to be affrighted and flee away, pursued and smote them, as the next verse mentions.
Verse 1 Samuel 7:10. _THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER_] Literally, _The Lord thundered with a great voice_-he confounded them with a mighty tempest of thunder and lightning, and no doubt slew...
7. THE RETURN UNTO JEHOVAH AND THE DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 7:3-14 _ 1. Samuel's message and the response of the people (1 Samuel 7:3)_ 2. Gathered at Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:5) 3. The deliverance (1 Samuel...
SAMUEL AS JUDGE. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of Israel's repentance and Samuel's piety peace, victory, and o...
THUNDERED WITH. GREAT THUNDER. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
_thundered with a great thunder_ Lit., WITH A GREAT VOICE. Thunder is the "voice of God" (Psalms 29:3-4). Cp. ch. 1Sa 2:10; 2 Samuel 22:14-15. _discomfited them_ The Heb. word expresses _the confusion...
Total Rout of the Philistines at Ebenezer 7. _when the Philistines heard_, &c. The lords naturally regarded a national assembly of their vassals as a preliminary step towards revolt, and mustering th...
THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER— Baldwin the Second, with other princes, marching to Damascus, fully resolved to take it by surrender or storm, met with a check in foraging, which enraged the...
_Israel Delivered Under Samuel._ 1 Samuel 7:9-17 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered _it for_ a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord...
_AND AS SAMUEL WAS OFFERING UP THE BURNT OFFERING, THE PHILISTINES DREW NEAR TO BATTLE AGAINST ISRAEL: BUT THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER ON THAT DAY UPON THE PHILISTINES, AND DISCOMFITED THE...
SAMUEL DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE PHILISTINES The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from the account which precedes....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 So men came from Kiriath Jearim to fetch the *ark of the Lord. They took it to the house that belonged to Abinadab. His house was on a hil...
וַ יְהִ֤י שְׁמוּאֵל֙ מַעֲלֶ֣ה הָ עֹולָ֔ה וּ
CHAPTER IX. _ NATIONAL DELIVERANCE--THE PHILISTINES SUBDUED._ 1 Samuel 7:10. IT must have been with feelings very different from those of their last encounter, when the ark of God was carried into t...
LEADING THE NATION IN GOD'S WAYS 1 Samuel 7:5 We are here taught the successive steps that must be taken if revival is to be granted to either Church or individual. _ 1. Unity_. All Israel was gath...
The Ark found its resting place temporarily at Gibeah, in the house of Abinadab. A dark period of twenty years is passed over without detailed record. It would seem that during all that time Israel wa...
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD (f) thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited...
Israel. The princes of the Tyrians had come to the assistance of the enemy; (Ecclesiasticus xlvi. 21.; Calmet) but all in vain. The greatness of the army only increased the greatness of the carnage, w...
(10) And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
Samuel begins to act, by his testimony, upon the conscience of the people, and to put away that which weakened them by dishonouring God. He tells them that, if they will turn to Jehovah with all their...
AND AS SAMUEL WAS OFFERING UP THE BURNT OFFERING.... Which he might do by a priest, as Ben Gersom suggests, he being only a Levite; though he being a prophet, and an extraordinary person, and this an...
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them...
1 They of Kiriath-iearim bring the Arke into the house of Abinadab, and sanctifie Eleazar his sonne to keepe it. 2 After twentie yeeres 3 The Israelites, by Samuels meanes, solemnly repent at Mizpeh...
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, while this act of worship was still going on, THE PHILISTINES DREW NEAR TO BATTLE AGAINST ISRAEL; BUT THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER, with te...
THE PHILISTINES OVERTHROWN...
Men from Kirjath-jearim respond to the call to bring the ark there. It is not said how it was transported, nor whether it was Levites who attended it. We are not even told whether Abinadab, to whose h...
7-12 The Philistines invaded Israel. When sinners begin to repent and reform, they must expect that Satan will muster all his force against them, and set his instruments at work to the utmost, to opp...
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THE ARK HAVING BEEN RESTORED, ISRAEL DEFEAT THE PHILISTINES THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF SAMUEL, YHWH'S REPRESENTATIVE (1 SAMUEL 7:5). Analysis. a And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I wil...
CONTENTS: Ark brought to house of Abinadab. Revival of Mizpah. Victory at Eben-ezer. CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Eleazar, Abinadab. CONCLUSION: When we are truly sensible that by sin we have provoked G...
1 Samuel 7:1. _Sanctified Eleazar,_ a levite, to keep the ark. Holy persons were consecrated by imposition of hands and by sacrifices, as was Samuel, a levite also. Abinadab seems to have been aged or...
_The Philistines went up against Israel._ THE HOLY WAR The revival of religion has ever had a most important bearing as social and political improvement. The return of man to God restores him to his...
_And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts._ SAMUEL THE JUDGE For more than twenty years the Philistines had held undisputed sway over...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:2__ Samuel has not appeared since 1 Samuel 4:1, but when he calls the people to repent of their idolatry, they respond. He is clearly the leader of “all... Israel” ...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:10 CONFUSION. Compare Exodus 14:24, where the Lord threw the Egyptian army into “panic.” Compare also “confusion” ...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 7:7. “WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD,” etc. “Apprehending that such a gathering under one so well known as Samuel boded no good to their dominions, and might be in...
EXPOSITION 1 SAMUEL 7:1 At Kirjath-jearim the people reverently undertook the charge of the ark, and carried out their arrangements so carefully that no further calamity occurred. On its arrival they...
And so the men of Kirjathjearim came, and they took the ark of the Lord; and they brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and sanctified Eleazar the son to keep the ark of the Lord. And it ca...
1 Samuel 12:17; 1 Samuel 2:10; Deuteronomy 20:3; Deuteronomy 20:4;...
THE ARK WITH ABINADAB 1 Samuel 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cover a period of twenty years, in which the Ark was in the care of the House of Abinadab, under the charge of his son, Eleazar. We wish to...